Selling Quotes

It’s hard to imagine the revenue from selling the prints will cover the cost of lost goodwill.

There has been a little distress selling on the stock exchange.

I feel like so many people get into that place where creating for someone else is selling out and it is so not about that. It is a stupid, kind of pretentious way of thinking.

Retail is selling things that don't come back to customers who do.

The Central Bank is constantly purchasing, purchasing and selling and vice versa - this is their job.

Selling is essentially transference of feeling.

[O]ne can scarcely be frightened off writing what one wants to write for fear an obscure reviewer should patronise one on that account.

Everything you desire is always just outside your comfort zone, dear boy. If it wasn't you would already possess it, would you not?

Listen to people from your heart, as if your life depended on it, and you will find that in turn people will listen to you with all of theirs.

Destiny and fate are of one’s own making, and riches and happiness are rarely found at the end of an easily-traversed path.

That which is currently beyond your capabilities now, does not have to be so forever

In this world of half-jobs and liars, I will prevail.

I should become happier at what I do and leave others happier than before they’d met me.

Mark my words. Perception is reality and how someone perceives you is their reality.

Perception number one, how you want people to think about you when you arrive and perception number two, how you want them to talk about you once you have left.

In short, the difference between you and your doctor is that he has a well-designed reputation and you do not.

Young man, your problem and the reason so many like you fail, is simply because you allow yourself to give up far too early.

Fascinatingly resilient the tenacity of a child. Not yet conditioned by society to give up when instructed to do so.

And so it must be with the energy you muster for your own work. Get out there and convert the unconverted. Save them all from the charlatans and the nearly-men.

It has nothing to do with the time being right or wrong. Storms just happen.

You can’t plough a field by turning it over in your mind. Either you get out there and plough it or it doesn’t get done.

You see continuous movement is the important thing here. Those who remain in one position and then lie to themselves about their progress are the ones in real trouble.

Currently, you are approaching each opportunity with a single possible outcome and when that doesn't happen you fool yourself that there was nothing more that you could have done.

The future is a fabulous place to bury your success.

Don't allow your imagination to colour events as lesser men would, and see movement in motionless things.

Until you take the first step forward, failure remains reassuringly impossible.

I will ask questions that are so wide and open they will feel the need to speak for a week. Then from the information that they give to me, I will mould solutions designed specifically for them.

If you wish to sell to anyone you must earn the right to do so.

But without a need, even the finest piece of beef is merely a piece of dead bull is it not?

Why do so many salespeople talk to customers about the product and not the result?

People don't trade money for things when they value their money more highly than they value the things.

All my money was made doing the dates and selling products when I was out there on the road.

You wouldn't want to be called a sell-out by selling a product. Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.

How can you ennoble the spirit when you are selling something as inconsequential as a face cream?

Life is pain...anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something

I take a lot of flak from the counter-establishment for selling out.

I don't take accusations of selling out lightly.

I'm not selling out, denying who I am or where I've come from, not at all. I acknowledge that.

This is about black people selling out other black people.

There is a lot of anxiety in India about writers selling out to foreign audiences, but I’m neither flattering the Indian audience nor the American audience. I’m uneasily somewhere in the middle.

Once you become a producer, you're really selling something. It is a control issue, because you don't really know how it's going to pan out, but the creative control makes it work it.

Anybody that says different is selling something.

Companies should be selling ideas more than benefits. Sell ideas. Not stuff.

Selling high or low doesn't mean anything. It has to do purely with the market.

All the auction houses care about is the selling of luxury goods.

I'm selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.

Art and resistance are great together. That's what art's made for. Look at Vincent van Gogh: He didn't cut off his ear because he was selling well.

The mood in the market is one of a high level of caution. When you get some selling coming in, it's almost like a chain reaction - - it builds on itself.

There can be no profit in the making or selling of things to be destroyed in war. Men may think that they have such profit, but in the end the profit will turn out to be a loss.

New York restaurants are about selling atmospheres.